The Argent Confessor herself is not really a threat, she will cast Holy smite and Holy fire on random party members. Once she reaches 25%, she will Confess everyone and summon a memory of the past. During this time, she's protected by a reflective shield: it's very important to stop attacking her and focus on the memory, as her shield will reflect damage. You can however interrupt her heals and make the fight easier.

The memory has much more health than Paletress and uses powerful abilities. A raid warning "Memory begins to invoke a Walking Nightmare" will precede an AoE fear. Paletress will also place a Renew on the memory, which should be removed if possible. Once the Memory is dead, the fight re-starts as it was at the beginning. If Paletress has healed above 25% during your encounter with the Memory, no second add will be summoned when she gets down to 25% again.

Reflective Shield
– While the Memory of the Past is active, Argent Confessor Paletress shields herself in a reflective barrier. This effect absorbs all damage taken and reflects 25% of the damage absorbed back onto the attacker.

Memory of the Past

Waking Nightmare
– The Memory of the Past strikes fear in all players, inflicting periodic Shadow damage and causing them to flee in terror for 3 sec.

Shadows of the Past
– The Memory of the Past shrouds a player in shadows of the past, inflicting Shadow damage and reducing attack and casting speeds by 90% for 4 sec.

Old Wounds
– The Memory of the Past inflicts Physical damage to a player every second for 12 sec.

Comments

Comment by SerbanM

Before facing Paletress herself, players will have to deal with three groups of three mobs consisting of an Argent Lightwielder, an Argent Monk and an Argent Priestess:

* The priestess drops lightwells, casts Holy Smite and Shadow Word: Pain. On heroic, she will also try to Mind Contol someone unless interrupted. * The lightwielder melees and casts cleave. * The monk has Final Meditation (on heroic only) which encases him in bubble at 1 hp and slows attack and movement speed of nearby players.

Paletress summons a random memory. While the ghost is alive, Paletress puts a 100% damage reduction shield on herself but doesn't (bug?) remain attacking the tank.

Simply attack her until she summons the memory, take it down and finish her off afterward.

Her Renew is a magic effect, removing it can speed up the fight. The memory's Waking Nightmare is a typeless fear effect, and any ability that removes fear can be useful.

Prayer of Shadow Protection or Shadow Resistance Aura can help while the memory is alive.

(wowwiki.com)

Note: Now, she really has a sexy voice!

Comment by Pilgohr

OMG SHE CAN SUMMON HOGGER!

Comment by Kathucka

Confessing your sins to her just does not work well. You have to be sincere about confessions, and that is pretty difficult around her. She does not wear any pants, and that suggests all sorts of interesting new sins.

Comment by Orvisand

She puts the Kael'thas into most bosses:

Don't look so smug, I know what you're thinking... but <Location of instance first fought at> was merely a setback. Did you honestly think that I'd trust some <two adjectives and a noun of insulting choice>. Oh no no no, <he/she/it> was merely an instrument... a stepping stone to a much larger plan... and this time, you will not interfere.

Comment by rnbw

You might want to have your party group up so the memory is easier to pick up. It spawn near (behind?) a random party member and if it's the healer and the healer is miles away, it might be tough for the tank to pick it up and establish aggro on it.

Apparently all the bosses have the same abilities, listed in a post above.

Also I noticed the memory might actually be classified as the original boss. For me Onyxia appeared and was labeled as Dragonkin. Keep this in mind for special abilities (like undead/demons for pallies).

Comment by Pirwzy

Toughest part about this fight on Heroic is the random spellcasting she does on people for 5k constantly.

Comment by Maligor

Whitemane was way hotter.

Comment by Rankkor

<3 this boss.

sexy soft voice, the ability to fight old-school badass bosses like Illidan, or vancleef or HOGGER.

and on top of that she doesn't wear any pants.

let's be honest, what more can we ask of a single boss? o_O

(some mean players have suggested that she fights without the argent tabard on :P)

Comment by Kalx

Comment by KyorraWindblade

A few hints for Death Knight tanks which I found out during my last few runs.

First of all, I'm a human. Every Man For Himself -does- remove the fear effect.

Second. If you time Anti-Magic Shell right, it prevents the fear entirely, along with the DoT, seeing as it's a magic effect.

Third. Mind Freezing Paletress at every opportunity helps reduce the party damage, because the Smites are randomly targeted, she doesn't seem to have an aggro table for her spells, only for her melee attacks.

Comment by Jaylen

After reading these comments I can on imagine how long it'll be before we get WhitemanexPaletress fanart.

Comment by Gardius

Her spellcasting can be slowed through use of Curse of Tongues. This will help ease up on the amount of random damage the healer needs to take care of.

Comment by gwwfps

Man, they really overdid it with the voice acting for when she's hit.

Comment by PocketFox

Here's something I'm curious about (and it would be really neat if it were true): is the memory that's summoned based on your achievements? Like, for example, if nobody in your group has gotten the achievement for defeating Illidan, she won't summon a memory of him? I'm curious because I noticed that today for my group, she summoned a Memory of Hakkar, which spawned from me, and I have the achievement for killing Hakkar.

Maybe someone who has gotten a Memory spawn for a boss they haven't actually killed can refute this?

Comment by Lucifanlock

I noticed the sound files weren't on here, so I thought i'd post them so that you all can enjoy the soothing words of the confessor as well.

Comment by mean2u

I'm not sure if this is bad luck on my part or what, but I've been trying to get Marrowstrike by running this instance for two weeks (14 days) straight, and I've never been able to because everytime I do this heroic dungeon, Eadric spawns. I'm going to assume that having Eadric or the Argent Confessor come out is random, but man, if there's some way to influence who comes out, I would love to hear it.

Comment by jadei

The aoe fear seems to cycle longer than 30 seconds so warriors can use berserker rage when it starts casting to avoid the fear throughout the entire fight.

Comment by silkfire

I've been to ToC (both heroic and normal) 5-6 times and have NEVER seen her. I always get that Eadric. Is it based on my character or something with the RNG? I really want to fight the boss, it seems like Eadric has 80% chance to appear, and she just 20% or even less. Someone who can shed some light on this problem?

Comment by pierrechalfoun

I'm not entirely sure about this Fear that the add can put on your party but it seems that if you have shadow resistance aura, you might be able to resist the fear effect and the damage dealt by it all together.

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Comment by Oberscht

Is it just me, or is the shape of the memory depending on the achievements of the player it spawns on?With my fresh DK I did this instance quite some times, and whenever the memory spawned on me, it was Delrissa or Van Cleef - The only pre-Wotlk instances I've done.

Is this a coincidence, or a feature? Can anyone else tell his experiences?

Comment by Lagun

Comment by Omersiman

She can summon any boss that anyone in your group as ever foughet against, if none has ever killed an elite or a boss in your group (wich is impossible) she will summon on of the champions you have foughet before she came.

Comment by magepewpew

She should be able to summon a "Memory of Whitemane", would make the fight even more awesome.

Comment by gamerunknown

My two cents: the memories are all of the same strength because their power doesn't lie in their initial strength, but only how high one holds them in one's memory. One is meant to stave off these fears individually.

Also, small note: No wowhead client user has run into a Memory of M'uru, but its still on the table.

Comment by LeviGratton

I know you don't fight them together, but they do parallel one another quite nicely as sets.

Comment by condorian

If you are a mage, spellsteal her renew while fighting Memories

it heals you 22000 per tick, which helps a healer to be more focused on others and allows you to kill the memories faster

Comment by Ridley

Protip for Tanks:

To make your healer's job easier, you can taunt Paletress mid-cast (Holy Smite or Fire) and she will target switch to you for that particular spell rather than a random party member. So keep tabbing between her and the mob she summons, and intercept a few of those spell attacks.

Comment by azurias

2 key bits of advice for this fight if you have a mage.

1. Spellsteal the renew off the memory.2. Counterspell that stupid waking nightmare.

Comment by Aelinicor

Does she have an Aggro table?

As soon as the memory is down, I have a very hard time of getting her aggro, she keeps going after random people in the group

Comment by tlmdtd

Does anyone knows when she is coming to the battle and when Eadric?

I am doing Toc Hc every day and i have been against her only one time.

(Btw:The memory was Cyanigosa)

Comment by malminos

Something that should be noted that doesn't seem to get much mention is that interrupting her heal spells makes the fight MUCH easier.

When she summons the add, tank the pet near her and have several people standing nearby, interrupting her renew spell as often as possible. Just one person interrupting will help considerably, but several will make the fight go even quicker.

Death Knight's Mind Freeze works great, as not only does it interrupt but also prevents her from healing her pet, or casting any holy spells for a short period, and reduces her to weak physical attacks.

Other things that help during the fight are shadow protection and a good healer :)

Comment by flakmeister

The Holy Fire she casts is actually not randomly cast, but will instead hit the agro-holder. This is especially useful as a Warrior tank, as the frequency with which she casts it allows you to Spell Reflect pretty much all of them.

Comment by nitestrike

call me crazy but I wanted to test something out with the paletress. A few friends and I made level 78s in order to fight her. The catch was we never did any raid nor a dungeon. When we fought her there was no memory to summon! However she does still do the dialogue. The fight spazzed out and we all d/c and caused a crash XD

Comment by okamimiyazaki

This fight is NOT random. The memory she summons is based on the combined achievements of the 5 players in the team. It is chosen at random from there. I commonly see Gruul and Illidan ONLY on my toon that I have completed those raids on. When we first did this instance we got nothing but heroics bosses until I switched to these toons (doing this place with my friends). If she summons a memory then somebody in that team has done that boss at some point on that toon. (Hence why it is rare to see bosses such as Algalon). I assume that there is a randomness involved that if, say, no players have any achievements it will pick from a pool of default bosses.

Comment by Blackbleed

When I fought her for the first time, I was only thinking about one thing:Don't summon Hogger, Don't summon Hogger, summon Illidan instead, I'm not prepared! For Hogger...

Comment by Supahtoons

OK. A simple ''wrong''would have done just fine, but...Last edited by

When it comes to Hogger, nothing is simple.

Comment by drazi001

going for the achievement, i realized (as a hunter) i could easily avoid the fear by casting deterrence right before he set off the cast

on my Dk i used Lichbane and Anit-magic shell

these worked wonders, as it only took to trips to ToC to gain this.

my priest however is another story

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Comment by TheRaven7

Another interesting similarity: both Whitemane and Paletress are fans of party-wide stuns mid-fight.

Comment by Melanar

Been doing this instance twice now and neither of the times did Paletress nor Lana show up.

Comment by Urillusion

Is there a way to specifically get her as the 2nd boss? I have seen her only twice after MANY runs in this place (like at least 50 runs, < 4%).. I can not understand how you could even get the achievement. It is always Eadric.....

Comment by antananarivo

I know the memory she evokes is random... but sometimes the random number generator just... seems to know.. somehow... o_O

For example one day I was playing my level 70 shammy and did regular UK for the first time. I died 3 times on Ingvar. Yes, three times in one fight. Should be achievement. I died the first time because I got aggro. Self-rezzed. Instantly died again (one of Ingvar's aoe's I think). Our healer druid b-rezzed me. I somehow managed to eat another aoe and died again, this time for good. It was so embarrassing ;_; Shortly after this horrible encounter I logged on my 80 and queued for random heroic. 25 min later I was in ToC fighting Paletress... and guess what she summoned. Memory of Ingvar the Plunderer. Wtf. How did she know? HOW?"Even the darkest memory fades when confronted."Argh just shut up.

Comment by mugly13

can anyone help me? i need Marrowstrike so how can i get The Paletress at heroic mode instead of Eadric the Pure?

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